Have you guys read this sad IBD story?

Here you go Donna:

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...Melissa+Kaplan

What!?! Thats terrible! They actually sacrifice a ball python?

That gives me the same feeling of when I think about Organ Farms in this book im reading. Its in the future when rich people have defective babies and there are organ farms that raise up unwanted babies for... ugghhhh that gives me shivers... escpecially when we have a new baby in the family... I think I should just stop talking.

Thanks, rabernet--boy, things can change in a decade. :P
Her site used to be one of the few places for detailed information on water dragon care (which I owned at the time). That's no longer the case, and it sounds like that's a good thing.

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Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion

Has anyone attempted to ascertain if wild corn snake hatchlings EVER eat invertebrates? It's important to make sure it's really untrue before condemning it. I think it's also important to ascertain if any authorities said that it was true way back in 1994 when that article was written. It could have been an honest error based on the knowledge of the time.

Has anyone contacted her, and asked her to correct it?

I'll concede that it's quite bad--I never saw it before. Thanks for the link.

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The statement on corn snakes eating insects was based solely on a scientific article detailing the stomach contents of wild corn snakes. Well, corns ARE well known to eat lizards, guess what lizards eat? Whatever is in the stomach of your prey is going to be in your stomach too if you're an animal that swallows your prey whole. Melissa never did any of her own research, she merely read what others have written and reinterprets their data in a way that suits her preconceived notions.

And yes, MANY people have asked her to correct her care sheets. She just ignores it all.